Dr. Greg Roper

Associate Professor, English Department
Braniff 342
Email: roper@mail2.udallas.edu

Expertise

Medieval Literature
Literary Theory
Teaching of Writing

Education

• B.A. University of Dallas
• M.A. University of Virginia
• Ph.D. University of Virginia

Research Interests

Dr. Greg Roper has interests in Middle English literature, rhetoric and composition, literary theory, and pedagogy. He has published essays on Medieval penitential manuals and their influence on late Medieval literature, on the Canterbury Tales, and on teaching survey courses and literary theory. His interests in Medieval and Renaissance literature, and in pedagogy, have led him to his current work, a composition textbook written with Keith Rhodes that brings the Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance notion of imitatio to current ways of teaching writing. He also enjoys advising students about career plans and graduate school. Recently, he has begun working with the Christianity and Culture project, a U.K. based group dedicated to overcoming students' lack of cultural literacy about Judeo-Christian concepts.

Recent Courses

• Literary Tradition I, II, III, IV
• Medieval Literature
• Critical Theory

Scholarship & Selected Publications

• "The Problems With the Postmodern Performance of Penance." 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 2000.

• "Dropping the Personae and Reforming the Self: The Parson's Tale and the End of The Canterbury Tales." Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of the Parson's Tale. Ed. David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000.

• "The Middle English Lyric 'I', Penitential Poetics, and Medieval Selfhood." Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies, 42 (1994): 71-103.

• "Pearl, Penitence, and the Recovery of the Self." Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 164-186.

• "Letting the Students Ask the Questions: Teaching Milton and the New Historicism." Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 3 (1992): 47-63.

Poem

• "Waiting in Advent." First Things 47 (November 1994): 8.

In Progress

• The Writer's Workshop: Modeling Written Voices, with Keith Rhodes.